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What's keeping cities from rolling out changes like this faster? NACTO wants to know. Photo: Nathan Roseberry (CDOT) via NACTO/Flickr

NACTO Wants to Find Out How Cities Can Design Better Streets, Faster

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The National Association of City Transportation Officials, representing more than 50 urban transportation departments across the United States, is known for street design guides that prioritize walking, bicycling, and transit. Now the organization is turning its attention to the nuts-and-bolts of how city bureaucracies can implement these designs in a timely manner, so meaningful change can happen within our lifetimes.

Today’s Headlines

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  • Driver Plows Through Federal Boulevard Nail Salon, Injures One (9News)
  • RTD Gets OK from State to Begin Testing G-Line Again (DBJ)
  • … But Private Contractor “Concerned” Over Own Inability to Get Final Nod from Feds (Denverite)
  • Pro-Highway, Anti-Transit Tax Measure Won’t Go to Voters (Politics)
  • Civic Center Station Construction to Take Longer Than Expected (Cap Hill)
  • Arvada Wants Parking Lot Near G-Line to Become Homes for People (Fox31)
  • UC Health Building to Have Double the Parking Spots Required (Cap Hill)
  • Confluence Has an Opus on Changes in Golden Triangle
  • Fort Collins Joins 21st Century With Regular Sunday Bus Service (Coloradoan)
  • DBJ Elevates Listicle from Travel Company Gushing Over a “Very Bike-Friendly” Denver
  • Fox31 Gets Around to Informing Viewers About RTD MyRide Card

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Today’s Headlines

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  • Citing Love for City, Greenwood Village Voters Crush Plan for Walkable Development at Orchard RTD Station (DenPo)
  • CDOT Director Bhatt: We Need 1960s Solutions to Highways Built in 1960s (Independent)
  • DenPo Reader: Actually, Biking Is Safer When Streets Encourage Lots of Riders
  • 86 Percent of Denver and Aurora Residents Can Walk to a Park in 10 Minutes (303 Mag)
  • DenverUrbanism Explains How Civic Center Park Came to Be
  • Driver Smashes Car Through Lakewood Gun Store in Attempted Burglary (Fox31)
  • E-470 Highway Has New Charging Stations for Electric Vehicles (DBJ)

National headlines at Streetsblog USA

Today’s Headlines

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  • RTD Closing C, D, E, F, H Lines North of I-25 for Maintenance This Weekend (9News)
  • Home at 51st and Titan Wrecked by Driver a Second Time (ABC7)
  • Offices, Retail, and 420 Homes to Rise on Vacant Central Park Station Lots (DBJ)
  • Parks and Rec Will Separate Travel Modes More Clearly on Wash Park Loop (Denverite)
  • Denverite Covers Tentative Projects Up for Bond Funding
  • “Deceptive” Public Health Workers Threaten Thousands of Potential DUI Convictions (Fox31)
  • City Council Asks Congressional Delegation to Oppose Trump’s Anti-Urban Budget (Denverite)
  • Gentrification Is Changing Denver’s Increasingly Segregated Schools (Chalkbeat)
  • CO Supreme Court Ruling Against HOA May Boost Home Construction (DenPo)
  • Denverite Wants to Know Where People Harass You on the Street

National Headlines at Streetsblog USA

Today’s Headlines

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  • Hit-and-Run Driver Jason Brown Kills Woman, Injures Man in South Broadway Alley (CBS4)
  • Greenwood Village Voters to Choose Between Walkable Development and Continued Sprawl Near Transit (DenPo)
  • Changes Coming to Morrison Road — or “Little Mexico” — But What About Gentrification? (Denverite)
  • The “Smart Politics” That Transformed LoDo (DenPo)
  • Paid Parking, Free Shuttle Take Droves of Cars Off Roads Around Chautauqua (Fox31)
  • Hancock, Other CO Mayors Say They’ll Uphold Paris Climate Accord (Independent)
  • Colorado Leads Country in Working from Home (DBJ)
  • DPW Contracts With Parking App for City-Owned Garages (Westword)

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